Packing hosiery



Aug. 12, 1930. v QEHLER 1,772,633

PACKING HOSIBRY Filed April 18, 1929 -INVEN TOR Edward I. Oe/zler BY 2 W ATTORNEYS.

Patented Aug. 12, 1930 om -Epfsmr is PATENT OFFICE nnwARnv. oEHLEa, .or ILwAuxEE, Wisconsin, AssIeNon To rnonnrx nosrnm'z comrmm-onuxnwnuxnn, WISCGNSIN, AfcoRPonA'rIon or wrsoousm j 7 rnoxme nosrnny Application filed A ril 18,

This invention relates to-an improved 'pacl'rage particularly designed and adapted for use with hosiery. i

It is customary for hosiery manufacturers to ship hosiery from the factory to the retailer in small boxes, each of which contains a number of pairs of hosiery. Modern retail merchandising-requires the tagging or marking of all merchandise; 1 This is usual- 10 ly accomplished byepinning tickets or tags on each article of merchandise and printing on the ticket so attached, information, which may be in code, and which concerns type, size, price, color, and'aseason symbol or invoice number. When thefboxes of hosiery are received by the retail merchant from the manufacturer they are taken to the marking room and opened. If any wrapping is employed for the hosiery Within the box this .i must be removed and the hosiery must be unfolded and each pair of hose handled separately in order to present each pair of hose to the machine usually employed to pin or otherwisesecure the marking tags or tickets to the hosiery and to print the desired informationon the tickets; This handling of the hosiery is extremelygundesirable for a number of reasons, andfirst of all, because of the damage that isdone thereto. Many of the modern types of hosiery. are rather deli' cately constituted and if caught on any rough I or sharp surface or object or. even if-abraded will be seriously injured. In fact, from two to three per cent of all of thepresent popular light weight chiffon hosiery now manufactured is damaged or injured in some way due to the handling incidental to marking or tagging, Another serious objection is the fact that even when the hosiery is not damor impaired. Articles of this kind must have a fresh and attractive appearance in order to have the essential sales appeal over the counter of the retail merchant and the freshness and attractive appearance of hosiery suffers from the handling heretofore incident to the marking process.

One of the principal objects of the present invention is to provide a package for the hoiserycontainedin the ordinary box which aged its appearance issomewhat disturbed} I .each pair of hosiery and its wrapping or en- {velopeinay be folded forwardly to expose 1929. Serial No. 356,059.

will permit of taggingor marking of the several pairs of hose without necessitating removal of thewrappers or envelopes fromthe hosiery or the unfolding of the hosiery so that the hosiery is protected and its appear- 'ance 1s preserved during the marking or tagging, And because it is not necessary to unfold the hosiery or to remove the wrapping or package therefrom during the marking, the marking operation itself is facilitated.

But the principal advantageresides in the cluded by the package embodying applicants invention and this'result is had while mmimizing handling of the hosiery during marking and consequently protecting the hosiery and preserving its appearance. 7 7

Other objects and advantages reside in cer tam novel features of the construction, ar-

rangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the ac'com-f panying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which:

Figurel is a perspective View showing a package embodying the present invention andplacedin the lower' half of the ordinary box, the top of the box being omitted as it is'conventional and well known;

F1gure2 1s a similar vlew showmg how for each pair of. hosiery. 1 Referring to'the drawings, numeral 1 des- .ignatesjthe lower half of a conventional box in which hosiery is usually shipped. Such boxes areflordinarily equipped with a cover similar to the bottom although slightly larger and into which the bottom telescopes.

T1118 cover is not shown as it is conventional and widel known and used. Into such a box a num r of pairs of hosiery are placed. For instance, it is quite usual to ship three pairs of hosiery in a box athough, of course, the number may be varied. The hosiery of each pair is folded in any suitable way, but with a plicants invention the lower portion of the ose is folded up onto the upper portion, a portion of the foot is then folded over withinthe confines of the upper portion and the lower folded portion is then again folded 13 onto the foot portion. The exact method folding is not so importantso long as an 1' corner of the upper end or top of the hose if. left exposed as with applicants intention the tags or marking tickets T are fitted to this exposed corner of the upper of the hosiery. An individual envelope or wrapper 2 is provided for each pair of hose and is folded upon itself to provide a lower' wall 3 and an upper wall 4' etween which the hosiery is received. The wall 3 has an extension 3 which extends over the top of the hosier and heneath the upper wall 4 thereby con ning and enclosing practically all of the surface of the hosiery. The walls 3 and 4 are'cut away at an angle as indicated at 3 and 4 to expose the upper corner or rather one of the upper corners of the top or upper end of the hosiery. The pairs of hosiery and individual. wrapping as thus described are placed one on top of the other and are held to ether by means of anendlessband 5 which slightly compresses the wrappers and the hosiery and utilizes the elasticity of the hosiery to hold it .in position and to hold the wrappers against displacement relative to each other and the hosiery against displacement relative to the wrappers. The band 5 may consist of a strip of paper having its ends overlapping and pasted together.

With the any box it will not slide and consequently bunch or wrinkle, because the wrappers or envelopes conform to the size and shape of the box and engage the walls thereof. And when the box of hosiery is received by the retailer and is sent to the marking room for the" application of the marking. tickets or hosiery so packaged in the ordividual wrapping for each pair of osiery, a plurality 0 their pairs of hosiery folded therein being said individual wrapping with placedoneupon another and a band encircling all of said wrappers for holding the same together and against displacement, a portion of each wra ping being removed to expose a portion 0 the hosiery contained therein whereby marking tickets may be applied to each pair of hosiery while the ho siery is folded and enclosed in its wrapping and while the wrappers are held together bythe band. f

In witness whereof, I hereto aflix mysignature.

EDWARD V. OEHLEB.

tags it is not necessary to remove the band w 5 or the wrappers or envelopes 2. All of the hosiery in the box is taken out together and while left in its original condition and original packaging; The operator may hold theentire package with one hand and by liftisngnp the exposed corner of the upper pair may insert in the marking machine and a ply the markin tag'T thereto and print tl ie prints in ormationon the tag. After marking tag has been applied to the "meanest-pair, the uppermost pair of. ho- 

